Jobs in Portobello & Craigmillar, Edinburgh
Edinburgh areas with jobs
Top job! Operational Director of Childrens Services
- Full time
- Circa £66,100
- Scotland
- Closing 30th September 2022
About us
Action for Children is one of the UK's largest and leading children's charities, employing over 4,000 staff across the UK, in a variety of roles. Through this workforce, we have helped 670,000 children and families to have a safe and happy childhood.
About the role:
Are you a strong communicator and creative thinker with a flair for innovation who is focused and passionate about changing the lives of children and their families? We have a unique opportunity for an Operational Director of Children's Services to support the management and delivery in and across various locations in Scotland. This is an exciting and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.
As a member of the senior management team the successful applicant will provide local strategic and operational direction. Through the effective operational delivery, retention, and development of a range of service clusters you will ensure that all quality, safety, budgetary and performance standards are met and improved. You will be responsible for ensuring that services meet commissioners' expectations and contractual requirements and to keep children at the centre of everything that we do.
How you will help our Young People:
- By being responsible for providing leadership and overall management of a range of services in a designated area and or function.
- By providing clear accountability to ensure quality, safety, reputation, financial health, and performance management of services.
- By being a direct line and overall management responsibility for a range of senior professional and support staff located across a defined area/function.
- To deliver on key performance indicators and utilise performance analysis
- By being responsible for the effective performance of contract management arrangements and ensuring effective governance.
- By ensuring sustainability and business growth targets within a designated area are delivered.
What are we looking for from you:
- Relevant professional qualification in Education, Health, or Social care.
- Where the post holder is the Responsible Person/Nominated Individual/Regulated Person then they must possess the professional qualification of DIPSW (or equivalent) and 3 years post qualification
- Management qualification or working towards S/NVQ level 5 in management or DMS leading to MBA.
- Evidence of substantial experience of working with children, young people and or families gained at a senior managerial
- Proven success of leading and managing a multi-disciplined workforce to achieve challenging outcomes for children, young people, and families. Proven experience of delivering to achieve financial margins and income targets.
- Nurturing and building relationships, partnerships with commissioners, peer group/sector management, to support service and business growth.
Diversity
At Action for Children, we recognise the benefit of a diverse workforce to the workplace. To this effect, we welcome and encourage Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic applicants to consider this job opportunity.
Contact
Please contact David Simpson on 01923 361732 to obtain further information. We do welcome and appreciate your interest.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Part time
- £42,835 pro-rata
- Based in Edinburgh or Glasgow but regular travel to Glasgow or Edinburgh
- Closing 17th October 2022
The successful candidate for this position must have significant experience of working at senior management level, preferably within the charitable sector. You will lead a dedicated, passionate and experienced team providing excellent and effective support for bereaved children and young people in Scotland.
Reporting directly to the Board, you will implement the overall strategy and help maintain the organisational culture. Your excellent interpersonal skills will enable communication at all levels and your enthusiasm and vision for the work will inspire others across the team. As the CEO of the charity, you will forge relationships with appropriate bodies and advance its aims in partnerships. You will oversee excellent monitoring and evaluation processes. Overall, you will be responsible for maintaining the ethos and values of a developing and dynamic organisation.
Counselling Service Administrator - Part Time
- Part time
- £19,875 – £22,110 pro-rata
- Edinburgh
- Closing 2nd October 2022
1 x 19 hours or 1 x 16 hours – Counselling & Recovery
£19,875 pro rata
1 x 24 hours – Sunflower Garden Project
£20,754 - £22,110 pro rata
Come and join our Business Support team, providing essential administrative support to our counselling services that make a real difference to children and adults across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
In the Counselling & Recovery roles, you will be one of the first points of contact for our CrossReach Counselling East services that provide a wide range of individual and family therapeutic support and counselling, as well as our Confidential Conversations service for organisations and workplaces. For the Sunflower Garden role, you’ll support our service that helps children and young people affected by parental drug or alcohol use.
In these roles, you will work closely with the rest of our Business Support team to handle phone and email enquiries, provide administrative support and complete health and safety tasks.
A flexible working pattern plus a blend of remote and office work can be discussed at interview. There’s also a benefits package that includes an employer contributory pension and generous holiday allowance.
Part Time Children and Young Persons’ Counsellor
- Part time
- £24,770 pro-rata
- Edinburgh
- Closing 2nd October 2022
CrossReach Counselling is recruiting a Counsellor with experience of working with children and young people to join our highly regarded Sunflower Garden team. With multiple opportunities across the service, we’re looking for qualified counsellors to work in school and community settings.
You’ll be part of a close-knit group providing face to face counselling to children and young people in Edinburgh. This role offers the right candidate an outstanding opportunity to focus on what really matters – the clients. It’s a role for a professional, qualified counsellor with excellent communication skills and the specialist experience required to work with children and young people.
At CrossReach, even though we’re one of Scotland’s largest voluntary social care charities – with a 1,600-strong team working across 60 services around the country – we genuinely value the individual. For our clients or services users, that means being treated with respect and care, regardless of the circumstances. For professionals like you, it means being part of a genuinely caring environment where you can contribute ideas, have your needs recognised and help shape your role around your ambitions.
In exchange, as well as a competitive salary, you’ll have a generous pension, health benefits, paid holiday and a range of retail and leisure discounts. In addition, we offer flexible working patterns where possible, access to clinical supervision and a programme of specialist therapeutic training.
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Caseworker/Senior Caseworker
- Full time
- £25,000 – £30,000
- Based in constituency office in Portobello
- Closing 5th October 2022
Tommy Sheppard is seeking a new Caseworker/Senior Caseworker to advise and assist individual constituents. Members of the public contact him for help in resolving issues they are encountering with government bodies across a wide range of topics, including immigration, welfare, housing and many more. The new member of staff will join an existing experienced team who work with these constituents to help resolve their problems.
Members of this team have helped Ukrainian refugees secure visas, won people their livelihoods back in licensing disputes, and negotiated repairs for tenants who had been waiting for years. This is an opportunity to really improve the lives of people who, in many cases, only approach Tommy after they have exhausted other sources of assistance. The work often involves dealing with people in significant financial, personal or emotional distress.
The role would suit someone with experience of advice and advocacy, for example from the public or third sector. Alternatively, a person who is keen to learn and can demonstrate a motivation for this type of work may be appointed at the more junior level. The role is not party political, though the nature of problems means awareness of government and political structures is often useful.
The successful candidate will be appointed at either Caseworker or Senior Caseworker level, dependent on skills and experience. The post is full-time.
Working arrangements: The normal place of work will be the constituency office, currently in Portobello, Edinburgh (94 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh EH15 1AN).
Start date: As soon as possible.
Security: The successful candidate will be required to comply with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, undertaken by the Members’ Staff Verification Office.
Administration and Bookkeeping Assistant
- Part time
- £22,798 – £25,045 pro-rata
- The Whitehouse, Craigmillar (some and local travel may be required)
- Closing 30th September 2022
About the Community Alliance Trust:
Community Alliance Trust (CAT) is a development trust, and is a non-profit distributing organisation set up by the Community Regeneration Forum in 2011 to develop community assets and new social enterprise initiatives in the Craigmillar area and improve the quality of life of the people in the greater Craigmillar area.
Job Summary and Purpose:
We are seeking to appoint a well-organised, self-motivated, and flexible professional, with strong administrative and finance skills, to assist and support the Trust Manager with a broad range of administrative and
financial duties and to support colleagues across the wider organisation.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring transparent and efficient office administration and financial activities contributing to the achievement of Community Alliance Trust’s overall objectives.
A full Job Description is available in the Candidate Pack which can be downloaded below.
Marketing & Communications Officer
- Full time
- £20,251
- Hybrid – National Service, Edinburgh
- Closing 30th September 2022
Carr Gomm is one of Scotland’s leading social care and community development charities; we strive to support people to achieve their individual hopes and dreams every day. We know our work is challenging and very rewarding, and we require people with a flexible and inspirational approach who are able to find innovative solutions with people, not for them.
Responsibilities and Success Factors:
As one of our Marketing & Communication Officers, you will work across Scotland to establish and cultivate relationships with people who share our mission and aim.
You will support the business development team in representing the organisation by liaising with a wide range of people; be it building relationships with commissioners and partners, inspiring others to fundraise, or creating videos featuring our staff and the people we support.
Reporting to Media & Communications Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the team with a wide variety of projects. Examples of your work include supporting the team to:
• research potential development, communication and engagement opportunities
• support communications and marketing projects, within the context of the Strategic Plan and the team’s priorities areas of fundraising, tendering and marketing
• support the creation an extensive photo and video library as part of the organisation’s PR assets
• administer and maintain accurate databases, systems and processes to ensure efficiency and inform decision making
Successful projects officers come from different backgrounds and have a range of work and life experiences. All have a keen eye for detail and a flair for engaging with and relating to people, and all share our values; respect, interdependence, choice, control, openness and honesty. In our eyes, the best officers are focused, creative, tech-savvy, patient, positive, and self-motivated team players who are wonderful ambassadors, analytical thinkers, excellent storytellers, and passionate world changers.